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CHANGE IN ADDHE88-When ordering a ohange la the address, eubecribers should be aora to We their old aa wall as their new address. '"Old Joe" Cannon appears to have a few friends left in Iowa after all that baa been said against him. The wail of the Bryan organs for a special session of tbe legislature breaks oat occasionally, bnt Governor Sballen berger ignores tbe bulldozers remain ing silent. Tbe present liquor law is good enough and strong enough for tbe editor of the Albion Argus. "No one can start a sa loon now till tbe town says so, and this is state wide," is tbe way tbe Argus puts it. All this talk, by a few democrats of Platte county of revolting and making a tight against the machine will end in smoke. When the whip cracks they will fall in line and take their medi cine as obubI. A copy of the Blair Pilot containing a double-leaded, double-column editorial calling on tbe republicans of Nebraska to get together and nominate former Governor Sheldon to head tbe ticket, has been received at tbe Joarnal office. Tbe Pilot article contains the announce ment that tbe breweries defeated Shel don two years ago. Tbe returns, how ever, prove this assertion untrue. Shel don was defeated by the prohibitionists of Boone, Polk, York and some of tbe other counties that have been prominent in shouting for county option and pro hibition There appear.- to be some Dahliuan sentiment among the democrats of Col umbus, but the sentiment is not strong enough to break tbe grip tbe local ma chine has on tbe party, in Platte county. Platte county has tbe strongest and most brutal organization in tbe state. No man or set of men have ever been able to pry loose tbe grip of tbe machine, and any attempt to do so this year will prove a failure The machine has de cided that Platte county democrats shall not support Dahliuan. Tbe friends of tbe Omaha man may be able to sneak in a few votes for him at the primary elec tion, bat tbe bosses will see to it that no organized effort is made to boost for the man who has defied Bryan, Sballen berger and Edgar Howard. An Omaha paper gathered some infor mation from the members present at the recent meeting of the democratic Btate central committee, and confidentially informs the public that the delegations to tbe state convention from Douglas, Adams, Cuming, Gage, Hall, Otoe and Saline counties will endorse tbe Dahl man idea of controling the liquor traffic. The name of Platte county does not appear in the list, although this county has always been regarded as territory opposed to Bryan's county option plan. It has been hinted that some of the lead ers of the democratic party in Platte county, while pretending to be hostile to county option, are secretly favoring tbe adoption of a county option plank in tbe democratic platform for tbe reason that to ignore the question would be a direct slap at Mr. Bryan; and to declare against county option would mean that "We, the democrats of Nebraska, in state conven tion assembled, most heartily endorse tbe Personal Liberty Ideas of James Dab 1 man, etc." Tbe defeat of tbe LaFollette partisans iu the Wisconsin republican state con vention, and the endorsement of what the insurgents designate as "Cannon iem"in the Council Bluffs district of Iowa by tbe renomination of Congressman Walter I. Smith, was a surprise to the insurgents. In tbe Wisconsin conven tion, not a voice was heard in defense of LaFollette, and tbe endorsement of President Taft's administration and the Payne tariff law was unanimous. Sena tor Cummins and Dolliver came on from Washington to assist in the campaign against Smith, and his victory over the candidate of the Oummins-Dolliver machine was so pronounced that Mr. Smith is considered tbe biggest man in Iowa today, and in all probability will be nominated for speaker of the next house by the republican caucus. He is a member of tbe rules committee, and has been one of the chief supporters of Cannon in tbe fight that has been made against him by Norria and the other in surgents. The black-eye the insurgent movement has received in Iowa and Wisconsin ought to convince them that the republican party is not yet ready to follow the lead of the men who are at tempting to veneer it with tbe brass of democracy. Ml THE ERA OF RICH WOMEN. I It is frequently urged, by the advo cates of votes for women, that women are taxed without representation. It id, of course, quite impossible accurate ly to estimate what proportion of the nation's wealth is ultimately held and controlled by women; but some dis closed by a casual glance at the list of taxpayers on personal property in the city of New York alone. Seven persons in New York are tax ed on 1 million dollars' worth or more of personal property. Three of them are women, and a women heads the list Mrs. Emma B. Kennedy, widow of the late John Stewart Kennedy, who is taxed on G millions. Mr. Ken nedy, in his will, left his wife 15 mil lion dollars, besides giving about 30 millions to charity. The next two names, taxed upon 5 millions each, are Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Margaret Sage, widow of the late Russell Sage. The third woman on the list is Mrs. J Florence Amsinck, widow of the late Gustave Amsinck, the importing che mist, who is taxed on 1 million dol lars in personal" property. By her husband's will, Mrs. Amsinck received all his real estate in this country, in Germany and in Italy, as well as much other property. She is probably worth today 20 million dollars. Scanning the New York tax list as far down as those assessed at $50,000 we find listed by their Christian names, so that they are recognized as female?, some eighty other women, paying per sonal tax on a total of 8 millions. Doubtless there are many others listed only by their initials. Judging by the usual difference between the assessed value of a taxpayer's personal proper ty aud the actual size of his fortune, these figures must be multiplied a good mauy times if we want to esti mate the total value of the property held by the eighty women. It must le remembered that some of the rich est people iu New York pay no per sonal tax, and that others are rated on a comparatively trifling assessment not through perjury, by any means, but because of the many exemptions allowed by law. For instance J. Pierpont Morgan is taxed on only 8400,000 worth of personal property in New York. For similar reasons, the list does not include some of the largest fortunes held by women usually classed as New Yorkers. For example, it does not show the uatue of Mrs. . H. Harri man, who, by the famous 99-word will of the late railroad magnate, inherited all his fortune, which was estimated by well informed people at from 50 to 75 million dollars, though some much higher guesses were made. Nor does it include Miss Helen Gould, nor many other women of great wealth. Avoiding as far as possible mere es timates and guesswork, and drawing the figures largely from the published wills of the husbands, parents or rela tives from whom they inherited, it is possible to make up a list of American woman comprising less than twenty names, who control a combined wealth of half a billion dollars. It is easy to to speak calmly of half a billion dol lars, because the average mind is quite incapable of grasping the idea of it; but it is a larger sum than has ever been accumulated by one man, with the possible exception of John D. Rockefeller. Add twenty or thirty more names, and the total would amount up toward three-quarters of a billion. Nor, even so, does the catalogue claim to be com plete. Doubtless if the full facts could be secured, a list of two hundred American women who control a com bined wealth of one billion dollars could be compiled without violence to the truth. Walter E. Patterson in June Munsey's. OUR CAPITAL. Unlike London or Paris or Berlin, Washington is single hearteadly in the business of being a capital. That means that it attains to a great deal of gaiety in its spare time, in a city where spare time is measured out in double handfuls. Washington is a social center for many grades of society; so, although the social season for gold lace aristocrats ends soon after Lent, for the rest of us real gaiety at the capital begins with the first warm days of March and progresses with the buds and leaves. In front of Washington's most pretentious hotel half of the con veyances that are backed up to the curb are taxicabs, aud the other half are one horse hacks. The taxi is for them; the hacks for the rest of us! The chief duty that we ordinary folks owe to form in the capital is that of smok- ing a gut cigar in the office ot tbe representative from our congressional district. After that we stroll out to enjoy the freedom of the city; to relish the general cheer. Down the broad sidewalks under the elm trees, from late afternoon till bedtime, school boys and clerks exult in horse play or go marching as many as six abreast and singing in "close harmony." In appropriate ratio to this army of the easy going and the care free, there are hordes of pretty school girls and un- employed young women. Flirting and love making may be studied here at great advantage. Multitudes of grin ning negroes heighten the impression of pleasantness and leisure. The motor cars glide softly and at a speed regulated by comfort; and there are more carriages left in Washington than in most other prominent cities. The presence of senators and repre sentatives, half of whose duties are social, and of scores of scientists to whom discoveries are of the greatest importance, but lapse of time is of no moment whatever, adds further to the general impression of ease. In a dairy lunch room in Washington we have heard a porter and a counter man argue for fifteen minutes over the best way to arrange strawberries on a sau cer. Philosophy, too, k given much attention. In restaurants we have heard morality, religion and govern ment discussed over the breakfast table calmly and at great length. These straws show that the rest of us enjoy the capital as much in our own way as any one in the exclusive social set does. As we saunter down the avenues pondering and debating, or ride in economical luxury in a one horse hack, the city reminds us of a college town in commencement time. Colliers. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? What sort of attitude would the world be in if Dr. Frederick A. Cook were after all to produce indubitable proof that his claim -of having discov ered the north pole ahead of Peary was true? It would look like lending countenance to an impossibility to speculate upon what possible atone ment the world could make to the man for his pitiful degradation, but it is not at all impossible. On the contrary, friends of Dr. Cook have recently insisted that he has of late been iu Scotland preparing for a dash to Etah to procure the proofs which he seems not to have brought with him upon his return from the Arctic regions. His best friends, and he still has a few who cling to the hope that he will yet vindicate himself in the eyes of enlightened mankind, do not pretend to know he expects to get to Etah. Without the means so essen tial to equipment for such a voyage and for his susteuance while making it, their only hope is that some trading vessel from Denmark may give him passage. One can almost wish that he will be able to prove that he was not, as sus pected, the perpetrator of the greatest hoax in history. Should he do so humanity would feel relieved of serious apprehension for its reputation. It would feel like the community in which it has just been discovered that the man about to be executed is innocent. And it would make amends commen surate with the humiliation it has im posed upon the doctor. But it would first have to be doubly assured that the proofs weie not simply another hoax. And if there is anything of the genuine man in Dr. Cook he well might perish in an effort to make good his claim rather than go through life dodging his own name and identity. Lincoln Star. WORKINGMEN'S INSURANCE. After many years of agitation France has followed the example and model of Germany in adopting a general scheme of workingmen's insurance. Under this plan there is to be created an insurance fund made up by yearly contributions from workinemen of $1.80, from working women of $1.20, and from minors of 90 ceats. Employ ers are obliged to contribute a like amount for each erson in their em ploy. The fund thus raised will be increased, by additions from the nation al treasury. The existing old age pension scheme will be consolidated with the new system, which includes, like the German system, sick benefits and accident insurance. AH State employes iu France already are pen sioned (and this includes railroad em ployes, miners aud seamen). The new system will add about 17,000,000 working people, or practically all of the working ieople of the country. It is calculated that the State will have at first to contribute about 836,000,000 a year, but it is believed that this will be gradually reduced iu a few years to $25,000,000. Indianapolis News. A GOOD EXAMPLE. Smoky and maligned though it be, Pittsburg has set the world a good ex ample in its means of disposing of municipal grafters. Five more bribe-taking councilmen have been put behind the bars in the Pennsylvania city. Lawyers, bankers and physicians alike have been locked up, regardless of their social positions. In other words, jail is prescribed as the universal panaccea for theft. The rich grafter and the disreputable ward heeler, whose price is so low as to be almost negligible, have been herded together and locked up at Pittsburg. The Smoky City courts have decid- ed that the city's moaey is quite as sacred as private funds, and the men who have plundered the city treasury are being treated like ordinary thugs. This action is directly in line with the fearless stand Uncle Sam has lak es in sending to jail rich bankers who violated the federal banking laws. When courts treat criminals of all classes alike and enforce laws without fear or favor, there will be less reason for the political unrest so prevalent in America. Nashville Tennessean. THEPOSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT The Postoffice Department of the United States is the largest business enterprise in the world, in the expen ditures involved, the number of per sons employed and the service ren dered. There are many things about it of peculiar interest. During the nineteenth century, and up to the present time, it has doubled its busi ness once every ten years, except in two of the decades. This fact in itself is deeply significant. It necessitates methods of management which can expand with equal rapidity, and they, in turn, require change as well as growth. No other business offers such a problem; nor is the end even in sight so long as population increases. There are many reasons why the Postoffice Department is just now a subject of serious study. It has always been conducted at a loss. It has long been considered that this would gradually be reduced in amount, until it should finally disappear. The tacts, however, have not justified this belief. The ten year doubling of the business has been accompanied by ex penditures which have somewhat more than doubled during the same periods. That is not in accordance with the experience of the most successful pri vate commercial enterprises, in which an increase of one-tenth in the number of employes is often sufficient to care for a twofold increase of business. It is probable that the next few years luay see radical changes in postoffice organization and management. They are likely to include a divisional sys tem, and a permanent superintendent, independent of political appointment. Youth's Companion. DR KOCH'S GREAT WORK. About thirty five years ago Dr. Kock rendered invaluable service to the world by his investigation of anth rax or splenic fever, a disease greatly dreaded by owners of cattle and sheep. This discovery raised him from the position of a country doctor to a world famous medical authority and gave the opportunity of studying tubercu losis, the germ of which he isolated nearly thirty years ago. Tuberculin, which he invented, has not proved' as he hoped, a specific for tuberculosis but it has beeu a valuable aid to doc tors in diagnosing the disease in hum an beings and animals; but chiely means of ascertaining if a human be ing has the disease. Dr. Koch declared that tuberculosis was not communicated from animals to mankind, and medical opinion in this country and England has strongly contradicted him, and it has been re peatedly stated that he had been re futed. And yet at the recent meeting in Washington of the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tub bercnlosis a resolution was adopted, baaed upon exhaustive investigation in New York, saying that only about 2 per cent of the cases of tuberculosis can be traced to milk and these are wholly among young children. The position taken by these American experts was very nearly as comprehensive as that which Dr. Koch had taken, and which had arrayed against him most of the English speaking doctors. Philadel phia Record. ATCHISON GLOBE NOTES. A Startling Statement. People are always too ready to fav or defendants in personal injury suits. They do not stop to consider that this unfair frieudliness results in thousands of unjust perianal injury suits, and that finally the people must pay the bill. Here is a startling statement: About a year ago Minnesota ap pointed a committee to study the sub ject of compensation for personal in juries resulting from industrial acci dents. By a search of court records of Hennepin county, in which Minnea polis is situated, the committee dis covered that the sum which the people of the county pay out yearly in court costs accruing from the trial of per sonal-damage cases exceeds the sum of all the verdicts recovered by the plain tiffs in such cases. By paying the damages out of their own pockets, without litigation, taxpayers could have saved money. And rather less than half the amount of the damages named in the verdicts actually reaches the injured persons "or their dependent Contingent-fee lawyers and trial costs absorb the remainder. Defending Tobacco. You may think every man who smokes wants to quit, and can't. The general opiaioa seeaM to be that using tobacco is a bad habit; not very bad, but so bad that aaeawouldn't learn it if they were beginning over, and had their present knowledge of the weed. But there is always opposition, and not all men want to quit And not want ing to quit, it is for them to make a defense; there are always arguments for the defense. Here is one offered by a correspondent to the Chicago Tribune: "You may say that the world did without smoke for a mighty long time, why not now? But you must admit that since tobacco was introduced to the world it has wit nessed the greatest things done by brainpower. Tobacco did it. Why, every conceivable invention is either perfected now or so near it that the inventive field is nearly used up and inventors are leaving the field and retiring. The brains responsible for our present civilization are found mostly in the tobacco era. Even the Ladies' Home Journal advises girls not to marry a man who does not use the weed in a smoky form. That paper rightly contends that the non-user is likely to get irritated after dinner, whereas a smoker would be quiet and behave himself, soothed by the balm of a fragrant Havana. To a girl in love a smoker is more desirable be cause he writes a better love letter, which is more efficient than star gazing." The Great White Lie? The Ballinger case will likely at tract more attention now than ever before: those against Ballinger an nounce that President Taft has been caught in a lie! Some time ago the president wrote a letter exuberating Ballinger. The Muck-Raking newspapers now'declare that this letter was written by a sub ordinate of Ballinger's, and signed by Taft. Taft says the original draft of the letter was drawn by Oscar Lawler, assistant attorney geueral for the in terior department, at his (Taft s) re quest. When the letter was brought to Taft, he changed its language to suit himself. This is the regular pro ceeding in matters of that kind, but the Muck-Rakers are making much of it. A clerk named Kerby has jumped into the lime light with Gilford Pin chot; he is the author of the latest story, and is hoping to be discharged, in order that he may become a martyr. All the fuss that has beeu made over Ballinger has been made by sub ordinates looking for notoriety, and exploited by Muck-Raking newspapers looking for circulation. It is all ridi culous, and all unfair, but now comes a $15 a week clerk named Kerby who is trying to prove the president is a liar, in order that he may earn some thing from the Muck-Raking news papers. This feature of the story is pitiful: the people really should be ashamed of themselves for their longing to see the president "caught in a lie." Taft does not believe Ballinger has done any wrong, therefore he stands by him. This is perfectly proper. If you were accused unjustly by a sensa tional liar, would you not expect hon est men to stand by you? Chasing The Men. Women deny chasing the men, but it is related that Franz Liszt, the great pianoist, was compelled to be come a priest to escape being married against bis will. Liszt met Countess d'AgouIt when he was 23. She was married, and had three children, but their affairs lasted ten years, during which time they had several children. This affair was not Liszt' fault; the countess chased him. She was older than he, and paid much attention. Finally, she arrang ed that she and her mother should meet Liszt in some distant city; she was to go to one hotel, and Liszt to an other. When he arrived at his hotel, the countess had possession of his room! She threw herself in his arms. What could be done? One of their daughters married Hans Von Bulow; she and Richard Wagner fell in love, and Yon Buelow gave her to Wagner. It is stated that once a visitor called to see Liszt, and found him asleep at the piano, with twelve women around him. The women became so madly in love with Liszt that they didn't know what they were doing in his presence; once a beautiful Russian countess pointed a pistol at him because he scorned her love. The Princess Caroline, of Syen- Wittgenstein left her husband, and went to live with Liszt She took care of his children, and made his home comfortable, but he did not leve her. Her husband divorced her; but Liszt did not marry her. Liszt's home became a Mecca, and his lady worshipers made pilgrimages to see him. One woman, to whom he was indifferent, used to moan. "If Liszt would only love me for a single hour, that would be joy enough for me." Is it any wonder he had to en ter a monastery at 68, to get rid of his lady admirers? v FURNITURE We carry the late styles and up-to-date designs in Furniture. If you are going to fur nish a home, or just add a piece to what you already have, look over our com plete line. Need a Kitchen Cabinet? See the "Springfield.' HENRY GASS 21-21-23 West 11th St. Tha Psychological Momant. MIs Miss Whvatou ut home?" asked one of tlit uelgbbora of tbe spinster us be called at bcr door to get her signa ture to a petition. "She b tbat." responded Col la Lea by, three weeks over from Ireland aud a most willing handmaiden. "Will yez step lu. sorr?" "I should like to see her on n matter of business for a few moments if she Is not engaged." said tbe neighbor. Cella Hung wide tbe door aud waved him In. "If sbe bas wan. he's neglectln ber shameful," sbe said In a hoarse, confi dential whisper, "for 'tis three weeks tomorrer since I come here, and he's not put bis fut over tbe t'reshold in all tbat tolme! Sure, 'tis your cbanst!" Youth's Companion. KEEP YOUR BURLINGTON'S NEW MAIN LINE THROUGH CENTRAL WYOMING THE BIG HORN BASIN is now so well started on its great wealth producing era that it not only appeals to farmers looking for new lands upon which to establish new homes under most favorable conditions, but appeals to the Business man, Professional man, Mine oper ator and Manufacturer in new towns that are springing up and where raw material in plenty can be handled at a profit. The business opportunities consist of locations for new Banks, General Stores, Creameries, Blacksmith Shops, Butcher Shops, Barber Shops, Bakeries, Harness Shops, Hotels and Restaurants, Farm Implement Dealers, Lumber Dealers, Flour ing Mills, Canning Factories, Furniture Factories, Lawyers, Doctors and Dentists. WORKMEN NEEDED: All kinds of labor is in great demand, and the highest possible wages are paid; carpenters get from $4.00 to $6.00 per day, farm laborers from $30.00 to $50.00 a month; there is not an idle man in the Basin. CHEAP RATES: Landseekers excursion to look over this new country, June 7th and 21st, and July 5th. Magazine Old Books Rebound In fact, for anything in tbe book binding line bring your work to Journal Office Phone 184 Columbus, Neb. A Paper Restaurant. Hamburg. Ceruiany. bus an oatlng house made of paper. Its walls are composed of a double layer of naier stretefied ou frames aud impregnated with a tire aud water proof solution. A thin wooden partition affords fur ther protection from the iiu-leiuency of the weather Hoofs aud walls ure fas tened toyeiher by means of bolts aud binges so tiiat the entire st met ure may .be taken apart ami put together again. The dining room Itself ineaures 3U bi ll meters aud Is capable of accommo dating ir.o people There ure twenty two windows aud four skylights, and the heating Is done by two isolated stoves. A Mde erection contains the manager's otliee. kitchen, larder and dwelling room. The total cost was :;."(. Detroit Free Tress. EY6 ON THE D. GLEM DEAVER. General Agent Land Seekers Infermatlea Bureau 1004 Farnam Street. Omaha. Nebr. Binding 1 V